Danylo Sapunov

Danylo Sapunov is a professional triathlete born on 5 April 1982 in Zaporizhzhia. He raced for Ukraine until 2002, for Kazakhstan from 2002 to 2009, and for Ukraine again from 2010. He took part in three Olympic Games: Athens 2004, where he finished 17th for Kazakhstan, Beijing 2008, where he finished 21st for Kazakhstan, and London 2012, where he finished 42nd for Ukraine, as the best-placed Ukrainian man in the Olympic ranking for those Games. Between 2000 and 2010 he started 95 ITU competitions, reaching the top ten 56 times and winning 13 of them, and he also represented Kazakhstan at the Asian Games. In April 2020 the Ironman anti-doping program announced that he had accepted a four-year sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. From 2008 to 2010 he was married to the Ukrainian triathlete Yuliya Yelistratova.